Sossusvlei
Hardap RegionNamibia
- With a code
#8G6M9-83JWH- Said aloud
- Sossusvlei
83JWH
What the code says
The Grid Point Code for Sossusvlei is #8G6M9-83JWH. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 3.11 m east to west, centred on 24°44'23.40"S, 15°17'15.50"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.
- What it is
- Salt and clay pan in the Namib Desert, Namibia
- Code
#8G6M9-83JWH- With a check character
#8G6M9-83JWH*M- Short form
83JWH- Cell centre
- -24.739834, 15.287639
- Cell size
- 2.56 m by 3.11 m
- Region
- Hardap Region
- Country
- Namibia
How to give this address
- On a sign, a form or a delivery note
The whole code,
#8G6M9-83JWH. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.- Said aloud, in Hardap Region
Sossusvlei 83JWH: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 4.9 km east or west of Sossusvlei. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.
- Copied by hand, or read over a phone
#8G6M9-83JWH*M. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.- As a link or a square code
Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.
From the city to the door
The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 48.5 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.
- 8G6MMetropolitan area40 km by 48.5 km
- 8G6M9District8 km by 9.71 km
- 8G6M98Suburb1.6 km by 1.94 km
- 8G6M983A few streets320 m by 388 m
- 8G6M983JBuilding64 m by 77.6 m
- 8G6M983JWEntrance12.8 m by 15.5 m
- 8G6M983JWHDoorway2.56 m by 3.11 m